Computers & Forensics

As the problems of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 being exposed on this July, those people who suffer are trying to find a way out. It is worth mentioning that a new release version of HD Doctor Utility for Seagate 7200.11 hard drives which helps to solve the problem of HDD being detected with 0 in LBA.

Technically speaking, Seagate 7200.11 family has big capacity up to 1.5 TB of storage. Bearing GMR recording heads technology can provide the drives with increased recording density; in this case, an error-correction algorithm was made to enhance the correction and storage of the data.

However, there are many solutions out there claim to resolve these problems like hard disk drive stays “BUSY” and “Drive Not Ready”, or being detected with 0 in LBA, for example. In fact, they are simply dealing with the “BUSY” issue.

Experts verify that hard drive will sequently read the data both in P-list and G-list, when perform on a detective list. Otherwise, as soon as the read command failed, the hard drive will promptly get into the sate of self-protection, so data stored on the disk will not be destroyed by errors of any time. The reason that can cause read failures is the mess of data in G-list and P-list, and that’s the problem where hard drive are going “BUSY” soon after powered up.

The other problem that LBA is detected as 0 is a typical failure for Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive. Such drives can be detected normally but the data area is inaccessible with LBA 0 GB.

G-list is related with SMART-list. SalvationDATA technicians have recently discovered that when Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives deal with bad sectors, SMART list will read/write on every sector, to check if there are real bad sectors existing, soon will add those bad sectors to G-list. These operations will be noted on SMART Log then. In most cases, If drives are being powered on/off too often when drives are engaged on reading data, as a result, hard drive will get hung a lot and then SMART list will be destroyed, and also impact on G-list, so the hard drive will be detected with LBA 0 GB.

HD Doctor for Seagate is a software-hardware complex designed for data recovery from damaged Seagate hard drives. Its first release was on 2004, since then it was developed from a DOS program that supported the major models of Seagate drives to a software-hardware complex runs on Windows with easy and instantly renewable USB installation. Now it has been the tool supports the most comprehensive drive families.

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Zoe Chou is a freelancer for www.salvationdata.com doing research in data recovery solutions, and specializing in data recovery equipments and firmware repair tools.

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